Hey Roger; BUT although they're strong enough, nearly all hard drive magnets have both north and south poles on the same face so are not recommended for magnet therapy; you want North, that's the side that would seek the south pole of the earth.
People and practitioners in the know completely avoid Nikken products not just because of the price, but specifically because of that bipolar configuration. What do I do? I recommend to buy a roll of 7/16" neo magnets from www.wondermagnet.com and make your own wrap out of several -- all pointing North side into the target area. You get enough gradient and power, 750 milligauss desired at treatment point. Or buy a 2" neo magnet 1/8 or more thick, for serious magnet therapy. To Dr. Frank Stagg: Who is this guy? Your opinion is going down in history...Sir; don't just sit on your past accomplishments (your degree). I know you're an MD but learning never stops does it? You should learn something about the static magnet therapy before you knock it or the practitioners. Try the bioelectromagnetics society to help get yourself up to speed. An international society of highly regarded scientists that publishes its peer-reviewed findings. http://www.bioelectromagnetics.org/ Abstracts from several years of research are available freely. I suggest that you should also learn more before you try to speak as an informed source on pulsed magnetics. The same society or the rife list will be useful for that. FYI, MRI is of much too short duration to be very useful and the frequency's wrong too, but if you did set your MRI to a frequency other than hydrogen resonance like a Rife machine however you could cure something with it with repeated treatments, rather than just take pictures. But you don't really need that much power. ciao | List: I thought the idea explained below would be a practical, no-cost way of | testing the efficacy of magnetic therapy. Roger | | At 02:39 PM 20/09/2001 -0400, Dr. Frank Stagg wrote: | >To the list: When you think about it, if the magnetic theory is correct we | >ought to see some improovement in all or most our patients we send for MRI | >(something I wouldn't mind at all but haven't noted yet). After all, the | >magnetic field of MRIs must be on the order of a million or more times | >powerful the the so-called therapeutic magnets the quacks use. | | Actually, it's not; a cheap surplus hard drive magnet (they're used in the | voice coil head actuators; all even slightly recent consumer hard drives | have at least one) has about 1 Tesla field strength at its surface, and 1.5 | Tesla is a common field strength for MRI machines. Stick a hard drive | magnet without any convenient metalwork attached to it to your fridge, and | you will _not_ be able to just pull it straight off again by hand. You have | to slide it to a corner :-). | | A 1.5 Tesla MRI machine is filling a large volume with that field, mind | you, while the hard drive magnet will only pick up nails at a range of | about one inch (but they'll hit it _really_ hard :-). If field penetration | of the body is important, you'd need a really gigantic permanent magnet, | which would probably be impossible to make (it'd crush itself), to get the | same field volume as a superconducting MRI-machine coil. But the difference | in fields is one of quantity rather than quality. | | Since people using magnets therapeutically are often doing something like | strapping a hard drive magnet (or vastly overpriced multi-level-marketed | equivalent - see http://www.nikken.com/ ...) to their achy arthritis-ridden | wrist, it's not out of the question that whatever an MRI machine could do | for that wrist, the permanent magnet could too. Especially if they use a | few magnets arranged around the wrist. Really small things like finger | joints would be even easier, of course. | | You could easily get a large fraction of one Tesla through the whole flesh | volume this way, I think. | | People who strap flexible fridge magnets to themselves, on the other hand, | really _are_ dealing with minute fields, primarily thanks to the | north-south pole alternation that these magnets use, which reduces the | field to near-zero at any significant distance at all. | | Daniel Rutter | | --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.264 / Virus Database: 136 - Release Date: 7/2/01 -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
